Empathy: A unitary circuit or a set of dissociable neuro-cognitive systems?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):27-28 (2001)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

We question whether empathy is mediated by a unitary circuit. We argue that recent neuroimaging data indicate dissociable neural responses for different facial expressions as well as for representing others' mental states (Theory of Mind, TOM). We also argue that the general empathy disorder considered characteristic of autism and psychopathy is not general but specific for each disorder.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Autism, empathy and moral agency.Jeanette Kennett - 2002 - Philosophical Quarterly 52 (208):340-357.
How automatic and representational is empathy, and why.Martin L. Hoffman - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):38-39.
Neuro-cognitive systems involved in morality.James Blair, A. A. Marsh, E. Finger, K. S. Blair & J. Luo - 2006 - Philosophical Explorations 9 (1):13 – 27.
What is consciousness?Norton Nelkin - 1993 - Philosophy of Science 60 (3):419-34.
Against Empathy.Jesse Prinz - 2011 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 49 (s1):214-233.
Similarity versus familiarity: When empathy becomes selfish.Elias L. Khalil - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):41-41.
Psychobiological basis of empathy.Jay Schulkin - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):46-47.
Empathy and the extended mind.Joel W. Krueger - 2009 - Zygon 44 (3):675-698.
Empathy and Otherness.Kathleen Haney - 2009 - Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 4 (8):11-19.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
54 (#264,197)

6 months
1 (#1,042,085)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?